Other People's Riffs For July 3 Target Marketing Has Not Reached South Africa: According to Asian Age one of South Africa's leading banks has apologized to the country's Hindu community for sending beef cubes in an advertisement package to Hindu clients. Hindus believe in vegetarianism.

Car Jamming: Automotive advertising fascinates me. In no other category can you see so many different strategies and tactics.

The Big Ticket: There are so many mid-year, quarterly, biennial, perennial and down right up-to-the-minute advertising forecasts that I have changed my way of looking at them. They all have valid data.